Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15
N2580Z is a Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Anthem, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated August 24, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Balloon Works
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-865
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A277A6 (octal 50473646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · August 24, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00075062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watkins Tristan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 39506 N Daisy Mountain Dr
Ste 122190
Anthem, AZ 85086-6069
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2580Z, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Watkins Tristan, an individual, certificate issued April 12, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated August 24, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-865 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2580Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T2 (serial 31T1166002, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2580Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data